Remember that any action will cause a reaction. What would be the unintended consequences of such a move?
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OP needs to enroll in first year economics
I posted this last week OP and people here hated the idea.
Which is weird cause this sub hates landlords.
Who would rent out their property in that type of market?
The problem is supply, if that were to happen here, supply would be eliminated.
It’s very simple just make everything cheaper of course.
Ok so now how to the property owners pay for things like their own house or maintenance or utilities or mortgages?
Yeah so many would choose to stop renting out. Imagine someone moves in, wrecks the place and refuses to pay.
Because it happens every day as is. This will temporarily help a lot of people, hurt some landlords, and then after cause a huge loss in rental properties and an eventual price hike across every landlord as a result.
Fix the problem today by making it twice as bad tomorrow.
Will somebody please think of the TD landlords!
If there is a moratorium on evictions won’t loads of scumbags just refuse to pay any rent even if they can? That’s not something I’d get behind
How does banning evictions work ?
If a landlord has a tenant that has stopped paying or is wrecking the gaff. Will the government step in and pay the rent.
They can’t ban evictions without putting in protection.
Ban on evictions? Nah.
So people can just not pay their rent? No thanks.
This is exactly what should not happen… why would anyone want to be a landlord in that situation?
Whilst the emotions may feel good, be careful what you wish for. History shows that the unwanted consequences of such actions are always worse than any claimed benefits.
By far the best action is to increase supply more than demand. Rents come down, renting becomes easier, bad landlords and substandard properties can be avoided etc. But what politicians have the political will to boost supply and/or decrease demand?
Hopefully we don’t copy this plan,it’s beyond stupid.
And then put legislation in place limiting the proportion of property that can be snapped up by professional landlords/vulture funds, like Germany and many other countries have done.
There’s no real, good reason we have a housing crisis here, just unwillingness by those in government to do anything about it.
I got evicted twice in three months during covid lockdown when it was banned. Landlords don’t give a shit, the type to kick you out for no reason will do it anyway if they want to.
Anyone complaining about this don’t know what it’s like to be kicked out. Especially now when supply is as low as it is. It’s never been this bad in my lifetime.
This makes me want to cry, can we just have this please
We should be doing this, but we won’t since most TDs are landlords.
We’d make an arse of it Instead of a rent freeze we’ll have frozen tennants
I’ve seen things like this pop up a bunch on other subreddits and I’m kinda tired people dont see what needs to be done. Rent controls, mortgage controls stricter regulations for working standards and higher wages that equal to a living wage for All jobs.
Like you can teach people to budget, tell them to choose off brand instead of store brand. But you can’t teach them to budget out of poverty.
Seems like the best way to reduce it is to die at this stage
Bend over, obvs
I know landlords who would simply let their places go empty than start a new tenancy where the tenants legally don’t have to pay rent. Not saying it’s right, but why wouldn’t they weather out that storm?
Good to see, the welfare of the people is considered in Scotland
This shower are too busy lining their pockets. The going has never been this good for them.
Rent freezing isn’t the problem, we have sky hight rent.
That’s the real problem
I know I’m shouting into the void here but need to say it.
All these news articles about “turn the a/c off in your car”, “put your washing machine on at 4am saves money” and many more I’m sure you all have seen are all driving me mental. There are no criticisms of the government for having done nothing about the major issues we have here.
The cost of living is ever increasing, there is no way to make your house warmer if your lucky enough to own one without basically having to remortgage the fecking thing.
There is a Carbon tax without proving a reasonable alternative to carbon producing sources of energy.
The waiting lists for getting children with extra needs seen to by occupational therapy, speech and language, and mental health services.
The complete and total lack of investment into rural Ireland.
And the list goes on and on.
The gas part is we will vote for the same people we always have and they will contines to do nothing.
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Remember that any action will cause a reaction. What would be the unintended consequences of such a move?
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OP needs to enroll in first year economics
I posted this last week OP and people here hated the idea.
Which is weird cause this sub hates landlords.
Who would rent out their property in that type of market?
The problem is supply, if that were to happen here, supply would be eliminated.
It’s very simple just make everything cheaper of course.
Ok so now how to the property owners pay for things like their own house or maintenance or utilities or mortgages?
Yeah so many would choose to stop renting out. Imagine someone moves in, wrecks the place and refuses to pay.
Because it happens every day as is. This will temporarily help a lot of people, hurt some landlords, and then after cause a huge loss in rental properties and an eventual price hike across every landlord as a result.
Fix the problem today by making it twice as bad tomorrow.
Will somebody please think of the TD landlords!
If there is a moratorium on evictions won’t loads of scumbags just refuse to pay any rent even if they can? That’s not something I’d get behind
How does banning evictions work ?
If a landlord has a tenant that has stopped paying or is wrecking the gaff. Will the government step in and pay the rent.
They can’t ban evictions without putting in protection.
Ban on evictions? Nah.
So people can just not pay their rent? No thanks.
This is exactly what should not happen… why would anyone want to be a landlord in that situation?
Whilst the emotions may feel good, be careful what you wish for. History shows that the unwanted consequences of such actions are always worse than any claimed benefits.
By far the best action is to increase supply more than demand. Rents come down, renting becomes easier, bad landlords and substandard properties can be avoided etc. But what politicians have the political will to boost supply and/or decrease demand?
Hopefully we don’t copy this plan,it’s beyond stupid.
And then put legislation in place limiting the proportion of property that can be snapped up by professional landlords/vulture funds, like Germany and many other countries have done.
There’s no real, good reason we have a housing crisis here, just unwillingness by those in government to do anything about it.
I got evicted twice in three months during covid lockdown when it was banned. Landlords don’t give a shit, the type to kick you out for no reason will do it anyway if they want to.
Anyone complaining about this don’t know what it’s like to be kicked out. Especially now when supply is as low as it is. It’s never been this bad in my lifetime.
This makes me want to cry, can we just have this please
We should be doing this, but we won’t since most TDs are landlords.
We’d make an arse of it Instead of a rent freeze we’ll have frozen tennants
I’ve seen things like this pop up a bunch on other subreddits and I’m kinda tired people dont see what needs to be done. Rent controls, mortgage controls stricter regulations for working standards and higher wages that equal to a living wage for All jobs.
Like you can teach people to budget, tell them to choose off brand instead of store brand. But you can’t teach them to budget out of poverty.
Seems like the best way to reduce it is to die at this stage
Bend over, obvs
I know landlords who would simply let their places go empty than start a new tenancy where the tenants legally don’t have to pay rent. Not saying it’s right, but why wouldn’t they weather out that storm?
Good to see, the welfare of the people is considered in Scotland
This shower are too busy lining their pockets. The going has never been this good for them.
Rent freezing isn’t the problem, we have sky hight rent.
That’s the real problem
I know I’m shouting into the void here but need to say it.
All these news articles about “turn the a/c off in your car”, “put your washing machine on at 4am saves money” and many more I’m sure you all have seen are all driving me mental. There are no criticisms of the government for having done nothing about the major issues we have here.
The cost of living is ever increasing, there is no way to make your house warmer if your lucky enough to own one without basically having to remortgage the fecking thing.
There is a Carbon tax without proving a reasonable alternative to carbon producing sources of energy.
The waiting lists for getting children with extra needs seen to by occupational therapy, speech and language, and mental health services.
The complete and total lack of investment into rural Ireland.
And the list goes on and on.
The gas part is we will vote for the same people we always have and they will contines to do nothing.